H1: The greater the autonomy for strategic aware- ness, the greater the effectiveness of IS planning for the subsidiary.
Situational analysis deals with analyzing current business, organizational, and information systems, as well as the current external business environment. The process of gathering, organizing, and interpreting data from a wide variety of different internal and external sources can require considerable time and work. Au- tonomy in this endeavor would lead to greater feelings of control over the data that would eventually be used as the basis of the IS plan. It would thus produce com- mitment, ownership and responsibility, which in turn would lead to greater effort and more effective planning.